Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi is pictured in action during a World Cup event on Nizhny Tagil's large hill

An engineer at a factory that makes tanks for Russia's war in Ukraine was jailed for 16 years on Tuesday after being convicted of committing state treason by passing military secrets to Kyiv, weeks after his wife received a similar sentence. The court in Sverdlovsk region said Danil Mukhametov, who worked at the Uralvagonzavod tank factory, had partially admitted his guilt after being accused of passing unspecified technical military information to Ukraine's intelligence services. The court rele

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The Russian trial of American journalist Evan Gershkovich will resume on Thursday, after a hearing date was moved up from Aug.... More than 99.5 percent of Russian prosecutions result in convictions.In 2020, the acquittal rate in Russia was 0.34 percent.... Kurmasheva and RFE/ RL reject the charges as false....

The demise of pragmatic politics will only amplify discontent with the regime and benefit populist opposition politicians. The public will no longer tolerate the regime’s strategy of tackling material problems with spiritual discourse, and will demand immediate practical solutions.